Weekly round up - February 01, 2008
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Monday January 28
‘A radical violation of the truth’ / Asteroid not going to hit Earth / ‘Ion shield’ developed for Mars missions / Can shining lights on your head cure dementia? / In this day and age...
Tuesday January 29
The ego has landed / Pope takes another pop at science / State of the science / A plague on the weak
Wednesday January 30
US agency ‘hid hurricane health hazard’ / Periodic Table Printmaking Project / Hummingbirds’ musical tail / Galapagos sea lions slaughtered
Thursday January 31
Watching football can kill you / Mercury flyby brings data “goldmine” / ‘White Nose Syndrome’ threatens America’s bats / Pope steps up rhetoric on science / ISS gets closer to full power
Friday February 01
Roy Orbison joins the insect world / Scientists catch new elephant shrew, then kill it / Seinfeld Science: Don’t Double Dip
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
Climate Feedback: EU climate plan "hits the sweet spot"?
Nautilus: What's in a Jane?
The Niche: Stem cells and the State of the Union
Ones that got away
Alien species are landing in Antarctica, according to Reuters
What old logbooks can reveal about cod, from the Christian Science Monitor
Researcher dresses up as hippo, gets stuck in mud, from the Daily Mail